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Rasputina- The Year without a summer
In the spring of 1315,
there began an era of unpredictable weather
It did not lift till 1851
You remember 1816 as the year without a summer
June 1816, a sudden snowstorm
blankets all the country side
So, Mary Selly had to stay inside
and she wrote Frankenstein,
Oh, 1816 was the year without a summer.
Men couldn't ripen under these conditions,
It was brought in-doors in urns and in pots
It'd go from 95 degrees to freezing within hours
A brutal struggle for the people and the starving livestock
During the most severe years
of this little ice age,
we looked for scapegoats to blame.
Many people tried to blame it all
On a vast Freemason conspiracy
Or Benjamin Franklin and his experiments with electricity
The eruption of the volcano Tambora
Blanketed the earth with ash
That was the real cause
discovered by some explorer
Years later, looking back at the past
I will give you my red color
to take away your sickly pallor
For you were very choleric of complexion,
Please beware the mounting sun and all dejection
1816 was the year without a summer.